[Python-Dev] Status of C compilers for Python on Windows

[Paul Moore]

On 29 October 2014 23:02, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 10/29/2014 03:46 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
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>> On 29 October 2014 22:19, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>>
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>>>    - where one should be at when one starts the compile process
>>
>>
>> I don't understand this. It's just "pip wheel foo" to build a wheel
>> for foo (which will be downloaded), or "pip wheel ." or  "python
>> setup.py bdist_wheel" as you prefer for a local package.
>
>
> Hmmm...  That looks like it's for installing/compiling somebody else's
> package.  Is that last command sufficient to prepare one's own wheel for
> uploading to PyPI, or there something else to do?

Oh, I see what you're thinking.

I explicitly *don't* want to get into general packaging issues - they
are covered elsewhere. The point here is that if you have the right
compiler set up, you can read any generic packaging instructions and
it doesn't matter whether there's C code involved. That's it.

But yes, "python setup.py bdist_wheel" is how you build a wheel for
upload. That's true whether your project includes C extensions or not.

I'm also not expecting to explain to people how to build any
dependencies (for example, PyYAML depends on the C compiler being able
to find libyaml). That *is* harder on Windows than on Linux, because
there's no "system location" equivalent to /usr/local/include and
/usr/local/lib. But again, I consider this to be outside the scope of
the document, because it's specific to the particular project you're
building.

Paul